Examining how country-level science policy shapes publication patterns: the case of Poland

Przemysław Korytkowski and Emanuel Kulczycki ()
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Przemysław Korytkowski: West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin
Emanuel Kulczycki: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Scientometrics, 2019, vol. 119, issue 3, No 10, 1519-1543

Abstract: Abstract This country case study describes how science policy instruments are designed to shape publication patterns and identifies the changes in researchers’ productivity that can be observed over the period 2009–2016 in Poland by analysing data on 452,277 publications submitted to the country’s national research evaluation system. Our analysis reveals that policy instruments used in the country’s national research evaluation system, academic promotion procedures and competitive grants have increased the number of articles with an impact factor without compromising publication quality, as measured by a bibliometric indicator. Our findings highlight that only clear and stable incentives have influenced researchers’ publications. Therefore, patterns in scholarly book publications—for which regulations were not clear and stable—have not been significantly shaped by science policy.

Keywords: Science policy; Incentives; Poland; Research evaluation; Publication patterns; 00-02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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